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RE: [Full-Disclosure] aside: worm vs. worm?
- To: <joey2cool@yahoo.com>, "'Darren Reed'" <avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au>, "'Andrew J Homan'" <homa0016@umn.edu>
- Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] aside: worm vs. worm?
- From: "Mike" <mjcarter@ihug.co.nz>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:10:39 +1200
lol yeah and I guess we would all need to move to a better platform
or a different job :)
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[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Joey
Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2003 9:36 p.m.
To: Darren Reed; Andrew J Homan
Cc: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] aside: worm vs. worm?
imagine if the bug wiped out the infected computers' harddrives.
microsoft would be put out of business.
--- Darren Reed <avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> But it's Microsoft's own web site that is being
> targeted and it is
> through their own bug that it is being made
> possible. As much as
> they would like to point the finger at others for
> making the code
> available to do it, if their software didn't have
> the bug, it would
> not be possible it all. Hrm, I don't really want to
> start _THAT_
> discussion again, but I don't think you will find
> much, if any,
> sympathy for Microsoft being targetted by this worm.
> They're a
> large, rich, monopoly of a company. Do they really
> deserve any
> nice sympathy at all ? I suspect I'm not alone in
> these feelings.
>
> Darren
>
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